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Naples, Italy
Titus is not generally recorded as dying at Naples. Ancient and modern reference sources place his death at Aquae Cutiliae in the Sabine country, near Reate (modern Rieti).
Full reasoning
This location is contradicted by both an ancient source and a modern scholarly reference.
Suetonius says Titus "died in the same farmhouse as his father" and identifies that farmhouse as the old family property at Cutiliae near Reate, i.e. Aquae Cutiliae, not Naples. A modern reference work on Roman emperors likewise states that Titus died on his way to the Sabine country "in the same villa as his father."
So the article's death place should not be Naples; the evidence points to Aquae Cutiliae / Cutiliae near Reate (modern Rieti).
2 sources
- Suetonius • Life of Titus
"He died in the same farmhouse as his father..." Editor's note: "The old homestead at Cutiliae, near Reate."
- Roman Emperors - DIR Titus
"Suetonius recorded that Titus died on his way to the Sabine country of his ancestors in the same villa as his father."